Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (Print Edition)
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- Publication date
- 2021
- Topics
- Bowen Island, Clozapine, Cochlear, Deaf, Deafness, Delusion, Dialectical, Disability, Hearing, Hidden Valley Road, Children of a Lesser God, Mental illness, Psychotic, Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Thorazine, Vancouver, Marriage, Love, Man-woman relationships, Deaf-Marriage, Mentally ill-Marriage, Deaf-Family relationships, Schizophrenics-Family relationships, School for the Deaf, Nonfiction Love Story, Romance Non-Fiction, True Romance, King, Derrick -- Marriage, Love, Man-woman relationships, Deaf -- Marriage, Mentally ill -- Marriage, Deaf -- Family relationships, Schizophrenics -- Family relationships
- Publisher
- Singapore : Provenance Press
- Collection
- opensource
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 200.8M
Love for a Deaf Rebel is the true story of a tumultuous romance. With pathos and nostalgia, the author recounts his roller-coaster ride with Pearl, a vivacious deaf maverick, who, unknown to him, had paranoid schizophrenia. We follow their encounters through actual notes written before Derrick learns sign language; we go on their motorcycle ride to Mexico and Guatemala; we watch as the happy couple moves to Bowen Island, a British Columbia community with just three paved roads. Pearl and the author marry and build their dream home and hobby farm. They encounter one obstacle after another while building their life together as Pearl’s perception of reality—and, crucially, their perception of each other—begins to change. The author learns what it means to be deaf, what it means to struggle with mental health, and what it means to love such a woman unconditionally—the ecstasy and the agony.
There are other books about discovering schizophrenia in the family and about deaf woman-hearing man relationships, but none that tells the true story of a woman who struggled with both.
Archival-quality printed copies available. Contact: ProvenancePress@gol.com
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- 2021-03-24 00:25:19
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- Worldcat (source edition)
- 1243509349
- Year
- 2021
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